https://github.com/supabase/supabase/discussions

🚨 Proposal: Resilient Signup Flow When SMTP / Email Is Unavailable Summary During a recent production build using Supabase Auth, I encountered a critical issue: new user signups become effectively blocked when SMTP/email delivery is degraded or rate-limited. While Supabase correctly prioritizes email verification for security, the current signup flow tightly couples account creation to email delivery, which creates operational risk during SMTP outages or throttling events. This proposal suggests non-breaking improvements to make Supabase Auth signups more resilient, observable, and developer-friendly. --- ❗ Problem Statement Observed Behavior • auth.signUp() or admin user creation succeeds at the API level • Email verification is required • SMTP is down, slow, or rate-limited • Verification email is never delivered • User cannot complete signup • Application cannot reliably detect or recover from this state From the a…